Representatives from Major League Baseball and the MLBPA met for the second straight day Tuesday as the league made a proposal in several key areas to the union. Reports indicate that the league proposed to raise the minimum salary for players with 0-1 year of service time and withdrew its proposals to eliminate salary arbitration for any group. The league also agreed to accept the parameters of creating a pre-arbitration bonus pool for players.
While that certainly sounds like progress, it is worth noting that both sides remain far apart in a lot of areas. On minimum salaries, the league is offering $615,000 but the players are looking for $775,000. For the pre-arbitration bonus pool, players suggested $105 million, but the owners offered just $10 million.
Yes it remains good news that both sides are talking and will seemingly continue to talk but there is still miles of real work to do. Whether you would describe the last two days of negotiations as productive probably depends on which perspective you are looking from.
I asked a source with knowledge of today’s bargaining session about perceived movement from MLB on talks and source said “I’d hesitate to call it movement. The players’ reaction to this universally was, ‘What the f-, are you kidding me?’
— Susan Slusser (@susanslusser) January 25, 2022
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